About Azam Kamguian

Azam Kamguian is an Iranian writer and women's rights
activist. She was born in 1958 and started her political
activities as a socialist in 1976. She was a medical
student at Pahlavi University in Shiraz until arrested
and imprisoned for a year for organising student
protests. The second time she was imprisoned for
political activities was after the Islamic Republic of
Iran took power. Azam was released from prison in 1983,
after a brutal treatment in prison including constant
torture and solitary confinement. She resisted all the
pressure and kept her real political identity
undiscovered. Lest this be discovered, placing her life
in real danger, Azam fled to Kurdistan, a free region at
that time, and continued the struggle for eight years
until the beginning of 1990s, when she left Kurdistan
for America.

Azam Kamguian has been writing since 1979. She has
written several books including "Islam, Women,
Challenges and Perspectives", "Feminism,
Socialism and Human Nature", "On
Religion", "Women's Liberation and Political
Processes in the Middle East", "Islam &
Women's Rights", "Iranian Women's Movement for
Equality" and "Godlessness, Freedom from
Religion & Human happiness"

Azam Kamguian is the founder and the chairperson for
"Committee to Defend Women's Rights in the Middle
East" and editor of its bulletin, "Women in
the Middle East". Azam's numerous articles and
Interviews on women, religion, Islam and social issues
have been published and broadcast in various Persian as
well as English, Swedish, Finish, Danish, French,
Turkish and Arabic mainstream newspapers, journals, TV
and radios. She is also member of the editorial of
Medusa, a women journal in Farsi.

Throughout her activities, Azam has organised several
campaigns in the defence of women's rights in the Middle
East and has advocated Middle Eastern women's rights,
secularism in various international, regional and
national Congresses and conferences.